The focus of recent research in environmental criminology has been upon the physical and geographical nature of the crime site and how this "environment" might be altered to prevent future crimes. Most of these studies have examined property offenses such as burglary and vandalism. Few studies have focused solely upon the crime of robbery and its relationship with environmental factors. / The number of studies which have analyzed convenience store robbery from the "opportunity and target" perspective of crime prevention are extremely limited in both scope and application. They have either dealt with a single chain of convenience stores, have depended upon offender surveys or have been limited to a single municipality. / This study was designed to provide a more rigorous testing of the opportunity target model by examining the relationships between convenience store robberies and selected environmental factors on a statewide basis. The stores surveyed were taken from a random sample of all convenience stores operating within the State of Florida. / Data analyses were conducted at both the state and district levels using standard statistical techniques including: descriptive measures, crosstabulations, correlations, analysis of variance, multiple regression, discriminant analysis, and factor analysis. / The findings revealed that selection of convenience stores as robbery targets does not occur at random. Convenience stores with a low incidence of robberies differ significantly on a stated set of environmental variables from convenience stores with a higher incidence of robberies. The strength of the relationships within the research model was found to vary within the State of Florida with support for the model displaying substantially greater strength at the district level than at the state level. / The findings not only provide support for the "opportunity and target" perspective of crime prevention but also produced interesting insights regarding robbery prevention techniques for convenience stores. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-06, Section: A, page: 1583. / Major Professor: Frederic L. Faust. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76278 |
| Contributors | Hunter, Ronald David., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 296 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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